The point is Envato expanded uncontrollably high, so these fine things won’t appear to their eyes. There are really certain ways to allow authors increase price while maintaining the buyer respect / smile but Envato won’t do that just to secure from competition – their company, their preference. They are leaders in wp themes, so instead of continuing price increment tool, they just made overall increment. The physics goes reverse for other marketplaces – due to the same reason (not being #1), they will never allow individual authors / items to increase prices since they want to display a “cheapest in the world” image by setting a clear upper price limit for each category.

Pricing can be generally lower for obvious good reasons but setting an upper limit is something to be re considered. Recently there was a cry from some authors on GR due to similar reasons.

So what is the problem here? Living with too much of business minded strategies rather than researching the values, needs and efficiency. Who loses with this? Everyone including Envato.

RubenBristian said
3D Ocean files don’t have the same selling potential as other items from other marketplaces..

and this justifies the price?

Sorry to burst your bubble mate, but unlike popular belief 3dOcean still is horribly underpriced, and probably the items you found are generally a group of items / textures / models. I mean seriously, a CC / TF author now hatin’ on 3DOcean “overpriced” items is just wrong

And to burst it even more, the competition is much higher in the 3D market than in any other, seeing as 3DO was launched years after the likes of turbo”tentacle” and many others… so I fear your arguments targeting this specific marketplace are slightly flawed. But again, I’m just talking about 3DOcean items as an example, not about how the initial issue was something priced correctly.

revaxarts said
Should be price calculated on spent work or the value it gave to the customers? I guess the latter.

So… basically you’re right, but then again tell me how would that in ANY way motivate ANYONE to actually build a 3D model? (I mean, seeing as you have no interest in this specific area, I can understand you having a bit of a biased view on how worthless 3D is) but it takes heap-loads of time, work and knowledge, again, contrary to popular belief, to actually build something. If that’s your argument, then perhaps 3DOcean should just be closed down to suit your needs?

How exactly do you know what value a fully modeled 3D Car has for a studio doing advertising for BMW ? (I’m talking interior, exterior, detailing, textures etc) You’d be amazed at the price-tag it would get… and then again we’d have an issue with “overpriced” 3DOcean items. Really.

L.E: if you also have so many requests for “more money for your items” why don’t you simply organize for them to pay you directly if they so much enjoyed the final product? If there’s any actual honesty behind such statements, I’m sure you’d be getting what you deserve for the work regardless of the price it sells for here.

revaxarts said
At 3DOcean I found some items which costs $ 100,- and more. I don’t think they are not worth the price but why is $ 60,- the highest on CC and $ 90,- on TF?

Upper limits relative to either competition ( if industry is busy) or profit with low sales (if industry isn’t wide enough to depend stock). Did you ever looked GR? That will show more complexities behind reasons! From my opinion, ActiveDen was lucky enough to stay on profitable pricing still giving good value to buyers and industry was’t too much abused due to competition.

I agree that many items here are underpriced and I have heard that from my buyer a couple of times, said that the pricing here is quite low. I don’t like the comparison between different Envato Marketplaces, cos it takes too many factors to consider. Like in GR, I have seen many excellent mock-ups pack, 3D actions and print templates at under $10. About 3DO items, thinking about how many hours could it save me from creating the models from scratch, together with the usual rates in 3D field, then the items on 3DO is still at a low price in some ways.

revaxarts said
Should be price calculated on spent work or the value it gave to the customers? I guess the latter.

So… basically you’re right, but then again tell me how would that in ANY way motivate ANYONE to actually build a 3D model?

+1000

Recently we submitted the wp watermark plugin on CC, that take us 6 months to develop! It has everything people asked, million of features that was very hard to implement and nobody offers them on CC or in the wordpress.org plugins directory. So we asked for a higher price compared to the other such items on CC… And you know what – they set the same 20$ as for every other plugins, which are waaaay less powerfull.

So, what is the point to work on CC? No point. This place will turn in the dump of small files like CSS buttons and other snippets for 5$. There is nothing to do there with serious product, if it is not another slider.